I live in Bulgaria. Getting a full Microsoft stack is very easy for Bulgarian programmers because piracy and hacking has very strong traditions here and is ingrained in the culture.
Sadly .NET, JAVA and PHP are abnormally popular for development here. There are few big players that were born from outsourcing jobs in the late 90s - early 00s and the languages kinda stick.

I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of programming, my friends, and it is terrible...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit how much I like the Surface RT. I wasn't expecting a lot when I ordered it, but after a day of use, I realized this was more than Yet Another Gadget. It might represent a brave new world of laptop design. How can you not love a laptop that lets you touch Zardoz...

Look at this incredible thing Ian Baker created. Look at it! What you're seeing is not Photoshopped. This is an actual photo of a real world, honest to God double-clawed hammer. Such a thing exists. Isn't that amazing? And also, perhaps, a little disturbing? That wondrous hammer is a de...

As a fellow programmer forced to use PHP on daily basis, you all miss the worst part of the language - the terrible terrible debugging and tracing options. If you have a complicated project it is almost impossible to debug with anything else than print_r or echo. I feel like being punished for lots of sins.
So if your open source project is something that can get the world off of PHP without invalidating all the old working and tested code - just show me the github link.

Look at this incredible thing Ian Baker created. Look at it! What you're seeing is not Photoshopped. This is an actual photo of a real world, honest to God double-clawed hammer. Such a thing exists. Isn't that amazing? And also, perhaps, a little disturbing? That wondrous hammer is a de...